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Nick Rafter

@dfrafter530

šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆBronx-born, Queens-raised, son of a dad from Brooklyn and mom from Manhattan who met in Staten Island. Writer, RE, New Yorker.

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I sincerely do not understand how he thought this would influence Albany into a tax hike on the rich. Did he seriously think landlords and homeowners like my parents/neighbors were going to go "Oh no! I don't want a tax hike! Hochul, give him what he wants?" because that's not

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That he did this too, while good on transparently, is also funny. He can't blame the cops or firefighters for the budget crunch. He flat out gave the Right an image to say that it's the teachers and the poor.

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When Bloomberg first took office in 2002, he faced a 9/11-related budget crisis and cut spending and raised property taxes and his favorability rating plummeted. It recovered by 2005, but there was a lot of talk of him being a one-term mayor. Of course there was some leverage in

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There is a noticeable different among transgender/non-binary people from older generations and Zoomers in terms of how they interact with society and that’s a big part of the reason here and I don’t know how to elaborate on that without making everyone mad.

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I get accused of being anti-trans all the time even though I never got fired twice during the great anti-wokenening for defending trans kids.

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Alysa Liu was born on August 8, 2005. I remember exactly where I was that day. Jury duty at the Jamaica, Queens Courthouse.